but they want to rely on the private sector, not government to get that done. in a word they're going for vouchers. now, they don't like calling it vouchers, but that's really what it is. right now, if you're on medicare, what happens is the government pays medicare medicare pays the hospital, the hospital takes care of you. under this plan the government would pay you and you would decide if you wanted to buy into medicare or into private insurance that will create competition between the two in their theory. and that is how you get at that very same waste that the white house wants to get out. these are two very complicated huge programs. there are critics on both sides who say this plan won't work or that plan won't work or th stranded or that plan will leave people stranded. but the truth is it is complicated. it's hard to deal with all of that. so if go to this basic claim that both sides have raised that somehow this is all about destroying medicare that is simply false. that is a scare tactic no matter which side is saying it. so why are they saying it s